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Collection of Henry Drummond’s Christian addresses centered on love and character

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Love, humility, kindness, generosity, courtesy, self-forgetfulness and practical Christian ethics.

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“Humility—to put a seal upon your lips and forget what you have done.”
Henry Drummond · The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses · 19th century

Drummond defines humility as allowing good work to remain larger than the ego that performed it: kindness is followed by a refusal to turn the act into self-advertisement or private self-congratulation.

Source note: “The Greatest Thing in the World,” in The Greatest Thing in the World and Other Addresses, Project Gutenberg #16739. Drummond explicitly places Humility among the “ingredients” of Christian love and glosses it as love that does not vaunt itself.